The Charlottesville Reading Series will host a poetry and prose reading on Friday, August 19 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM at The Garage (100 E. Jefferson Street).
The event will feature in-person readings by Aaron Belz and Natasha Oladokun. Complimentary refreshments will be available at intermission.
Aaron Belz lives in Hillsborough, NC. His books include The Bird Hoverer (BlazeVOX, 2007), Lovely, Raspberry (Persea, 2010) and Glitter Bomb (Persea, 2014). Michael Robbins calls him “one of the best comic poets we have”; Marjorie Perloff says “The poems in Glitter Bomb pull no punches: irreverent, devastating, even nasty at times, they capture the present moment in all its absurdity and hyperreality.”
Poet Natasha Oladokun’s writing often addresses the possibility of knowing, speaking to, and hearing from a God who is so manifestly other than his creatures, exploring the place of poetry as a symbolic system that mirrors the way Christ bridges the gap between God and humanity: her words reflecting the Word. Natasha is an MFA candidate and Teaching Fellow at Hollins University, and writing is where she works out her own senses of closeness to and distance from God. But her poetry is also a place to name how language itself is both true and deceptive, useful and unsatisfying as a way to reach towards God and each other, to name who He is and who we are.
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